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Targeted Next-generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Pipeline to Evaluate Genetic Determinants of Constitutional Disease
Published on: April 4, 2018
SV4GD: a comprehensive structural variation database specially for genetic diseases
Lei Shi1, Sainan Zhang2, Ying Li1,3
1National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Molecular Probes and Targeted Diagnosis and Therapy, Harbin Medical University, No.157 Baojian Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150081, China.
Abstract:
Structural variations (SVs) contribute to a large extent to genomic diversity and are highly relevant for various human genetic diseases. The sensitivity and specificity of SV identification have significantly improved with the development and widespread application of high-throughput sequencing, making clinical diagnosis and treatment more accurate. Therefore, the SV4GD (Structural Variation for Genetic Diseases, https://bio-computing.hrbmu.edu.cn/SV4GD/), a manually curated database, was constructed to provide a comprehensive, standardized and user-friendly data resource for selective batch browsing, searching, downloading and comparing those genetic disease-relevant SVs. This database compiles 10 305 records of germline structural variants from 58 human neoplastic diseases and 232 non-neoplastic genetic diseases, including 2695 disease-related SVs, and other 7610 pending research SVs detected from patients. SV4GD provides a browser and search engine to query for the detailed information of SVs, human genetic diseases and the clinical information of patients, providing an easy-to-use online tool for clinical and molecular genetics research.
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